Industry Urges EPA To Retain Self-Audit Policy After Upcoming Review

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Industry groups are urging EPA against scrapping its policy for self-disclosure of environmental violations that EPA may revise or reduce, with businesses pitching changes to help EPA save resources and warning of increased costs to states and EPA because ending the policy would require significant increases in facility inspections. Andrew Stewart, acting director of the special litigation and projects division in EPA's Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA) told an Environmental Law Institute (ELI) webinar April 16 that the agency is in the process of assessing the utility of the enforcement policy and how it could be revised to make it more efficient given constrained budget resources. "We're thinking about lessons learned and considering comments from stakeholders" submitted over the past several months in an effort to "understand the best path forward," he said.